Hame-tug



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F. W. MILLER. HAME TUG.

*.NO. 515,438. vlmfam'd Peb. 27,1894.

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FREDERICK W. MILLER, OF DES MOINES, IOWA.

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'SPEGIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 515,438,'dated February 27, 1894.

Application filed October 30, 1893. Serial No. 489,466. (No model.)

diticulties incident to extending the frontv end of a trace relative to one or more fixed loops on a haine tug; to avoid the Wear of a trace incident to lateral bends thereot` relative to a hame tug or a buckle at the rear end of the heme tug; and to facilitate the adjustment of a trace relative to a tug and the length of a horse.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of parts as hereinafterset forth, pointed out in my claims and illustrated in the accompanying draw ings, in which- Figure l is a top view of a sliding cover adapted to be detachably connected with my rigid haine tug. Fig. 2 is a top view of the metal portion of the haine tug cast complete in one piece. Fig. 3 is a view of the metal end piece adapted to be fixed to the front end of a flexible trace and to detachably and adj ustably fasten the trace to the haine tug. Fig. 4f is a top view of the complete haine tug showing the trace connected therewith and the front end of the trace covered and concealed. Fig. 5 is a transverse sectional View and Fig. 6 a longitudinal sectional'view of Fig. 4.

The rigid main portion of the llame tng is designated by the letter A and the metal part of the sliding cover by the letter B. The parallel sides of this metal part B have Hanges extending inward and adapted to cover the edges of a piece of a leather iitted between the parallel metal sides.

The two parallel sides O of the haine tug are connected by means of an integral cross piece D at their front ends and by dat cross pieces D2 at their bottom edges at different points.

F is an extension integral with the front ends of the sides B, adapted for connecting in grooves g in the inside faces of the parallelsides C.

A series of integral inward projections h on the inside faces of the sides C serve as dovetail tenons adapted to admit the ends of a cross head corresponding in size and shape therewith.

.l is a metal plate adapted toghe fixed in the front end of aleather trace by means of rivets and J2 is an integral cross head, at its frot end adapted to be inserted between the projections t as required to fasten the front end of the trace to the hame tug and to lengthen and shorten a trace by adjusting it relative to the haine tug.'

K is a leather cover lixed to the fiat bottom of the metal haine tugA, by means of screws or in any suitable way.

L is a leather cover titted in the grooves fm. in the inside faces of the parallel sides of the metal frame of the sliding cover B.

y N are loops, integral with the rear end of the metal haine tug A, adapted for connecting harness straps therewith.

In the practical use of my invention, I slide the cover B forward to admit the cross head .la on the front end of the trace to be inserted in the hame tug, as shown in Fig. 4., and then replace the sliding cover to protect and conceal the front end of the trace.

lt is obvious that the sliding cover can be readily moved forward, Whenever desired, so that the cross head on the front end of the trace will be accessible and also readily moved forward or backward as required to adjust the trace relative to the haine tug and the length of a horse.

I claim as my inventionl. In a haine tug, a metal part or frame having parallel sides and grooves in theinside faces of said sides to admit a sliding cover, projections on the inside faces of the parallel sides adapted to engage the ends of a metal cross head on the front ends of a trace, a cross bar at the front end and fiat cross pieces at the bottom edges of the parallel sides, and an integral extension at the front end adapted for connecting a haine therewith.

2. In a haine tug, a rigid slide or frame having side edges adapted to slide in beared to admita sliding cover, projections on the ings 0r grooves in the inside faces of the rigid inside faces of the parallel sides adapted to parallel sides of a haine tug and flanges on engage a cross head on lche end of a trace, an its parallel sides to cover the edges of a piece integral extension at the front ends of the par- .5 of leather and a piece of leather fitted beallel sides for connecting a hame tug extern zo tween the said parallel sides in combination sion, a sliding cover yfitted to the parallel With a rigid hame tug having grooves to adsides, and a trace having a rigid cross head mit the edges of a sliding cover and projecat its front end adapted to `engage the pro tions on the inside faces of its parallel sides jections on the inside facesof the parallel ro adapted to engage a cross head on the end of sides of the rigid tug, to operate substantially z 5 a trace, for the purposes stated. as and for the purposes stated.

3. A hame tug and trace adjustably con- FREDERICK XV. MILLER. nected, comprising a metal part composed of Vitnesses: tWo parallel sides connected by means of in- CHARLEY W'ILCOX,

15 tegral cross pieces,bearings in the sides adapt- THOMAS G. ORWIG. 

